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SEASON SEVEN: CAPTURING HUMANITY
Our seventh season examines the human impulse to control another entity. What drives the desire to replicate humanity? To seize a city? To document the time, the damage, or the impact of a human life? The diverse compilation of plays in Season 7 address these questions and many more through themes of war, technology, art, science, politics, and love.
In a continued effort to promote diversity and gender parity on American stages, we have assembled a season of plays authored by female playwrights, women of color, and LGBTQ artists. By diversifying the voices behind the work we present, RT tells stories of a wider range of individuals that better reflect the world in which we live.
Join us for our 7th year of quality, thought-provoking theatre in the Historic Gryphon Theatre.
In a continued effort to promote diversity and gender parity on American stages, we have assembled a season of plays authored by female playwrights, women of color, and LGBTQ artists. By diversifying the voices behind the work we present, RT tells stories of a wider range of individuals that better reflect the world in which we live.
Join us for our 7th year of quality, thought-provoking theatre in the Historic Gryphon Theatre.
REALLY BY JACKIE SIBBLIES DRURY
January 30, 31, February 1 at 7:30pm
February 2 at 3:00pm February 5, 6, 7, 8 at 7:30pm *Seating is located on the stage and attendance is limited to 50 seats per performance. |
Relative Theatrics presents the Wyoming Premiere of REALLY by Jackie Sibblies Drury, a stylishly contemplative play about mourning, intimacy, and the conflict between goodness and greatness as seen through the lens of photography. The production runs January 30 & 31, February 1 & 2, and February 5, 6, 7, & 8, 2020 in the LPCC Gryphon Theatre and is directed by Nathaniel Quinn, featuring local actors Olivia Cole, Justen Glover, and Alison Quaggin Harkin. We are excited to partner with the UW MLK Days of Dialogue programming to contribute to the conversation about Afrofuturism in a Rural Context.
In this play about photography and value, the “themes aren’t immediately or even explicitly declared. Like prized negatives, they gradually develop in the darkroom of our mind.” When a grieving mother visits her late son’s girlfriend, the two women look back at the man they both loved, each jockeying for a claim to his legacy as a son, lover, and artist. “As the vacant niceties pile up, we come to realize that “polite” conversation…has been designed explicitly to silence the opinions and marginalize the experiences of women, African Americans, and especially African American women.” Playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury’s beautifully refined language creates “an unnerving study of art as pollution, distraction from a world fast evolving beyond aesthetics.” |
Supported in part by a grant from the Wyoming Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.
